Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RAYMOND MAZALEWSKI got quite a thrill out of his Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...
...There was no way to take a typewriter over the mountains to the front, so to write a story we had to tramp all the way back to the beach, board a ship, then borrow a typewriter. After that we had to walk back an hour or more to G-2 headquarters for censoring...
Nowhere to Go. This year Dr. Good has nowhere to go. The Cheechako bobs at a Seattle dock, where Anna, now married to a Naval officer, keeps an eye on her. Dr. and Mrs. Good live in a bungalow near the sea in Sunset Beach, in Southern California, quietly Victory-gardening with a few Good twists - such as raising peacocks to eat. The doctor built the bungalow in 1941 because "I saw all this coming. When I was in the Aleutians. I was always running into Jap surveyors." He was in the Aleutians when the Japs took Kiska, departed...
...outing for the wives of the officers and staff of the Electronics Schools and Soil Engineers will be held on Wednesday, July 7 at the home of Mrs. Phillip J. Finnegan, Preston Beach, Swampscott. If the weather is bad it will be delayed till Friday. Final arrangements will be made at the regular meeting of the wives next Tuesday...
...Biggest mass cancellations: Atlantic City, where 35 out of 47 leased hotels are being turned back to private use, and Miami Beach, which will regain 109 of the 325 resort hotels taken over last year...